Monday blues? Too tired to get out of bed? Read these Monday quotes to kickstart your day with a bang!
Mondays can sometimes feel extra painful as it’s the first day of work after Sunday, but believe it or not, Monday mornings don’t always have to suck so much. Especially when you start your day with a happy and positive mindset!
In this post, we have collected the best Monday quotes to start your week strong with a positive attitude!
Monday Morning Quotes
1. “Every Monday morning is a new hope.” – Maira Kalman
2. “This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you. — Unknown
3. “I love Mondays because it’s the start of a new week with new opportunities. I’m excited to see what the week brings!” – Arianna Huffington
4. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
5. “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. “Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life. — Ken Poirot
7. “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. — Lemony Snicket
8. “When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it’s Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” – Edmond Mbiaka
9. “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
10. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou
11. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely
12. “It’s Monday. Get a new perspective. Whatever obstacle you’re facing — it’s not permanent.” — Unknown
13. “Monday morning will come whether you set the alarm or not.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
Motivational Monday Quotes
1. “Monday sets the tone for the week. Be a beast today.”
2. “Monday is a state of mind. Put on your positive pants and get stuff done.”
3. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. — Steve Jobs
4. “Monday is for people with a mission.” – Cristina Imre
5. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
6. “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” – Jessica Herrin
7. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen K
9. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
10. “You don’t achieve success by taking it easy or working on it later. You achieve it through persistence and hard work.” – Robert Kiyosaki
11. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
12. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln
13. “If money is your first thought when you wake up, you need to dream bigger.”– Lisa Messenger
14. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort.” — Henry David Thoreau
15. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
16. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz
17. “I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.” — Beyoncé
Positive Monday Quotes
1. “A positive mindset attracts positive outcomes.” – Sam Kerr
2. “Monday won’t be so gloomy if you believe that something good is always bound to happen.”
3. “There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.” — C.S. Lewis
4. “Finish the week with a positive attitude, and you’ll start the weekend with a refreshing vibe.” – Unknown
5. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” ― Bryant McGill
6. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson
7. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. —Dalai Lama
8. “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” — Nicholas Murray Butler
9. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.” — Bruce Lee
10. “Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Give positivity, you receive back positivity; give negativity, you receive back negativity.” — Rhonda Byrne
11. “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.’ – Michelle Obama
12. “I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Happy Monday Quotes
1. “It’s Monday, I’m happy, I’m blessed, and I’m going to do amazing things this week.”
2. “Okay, it’s Monday, but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway. — Kimberly Jiménez
3. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. — Daphne du Maurier
4. “I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays.”– Leggy Saul
5. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
6. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
7. “Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.” ― Jerry Spinelli, “Love, Stargirl”
8. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank
9. “This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” – Gabriel García Márquez
10. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson
11. “Wake up on Monday and start your day with awesomeness and you will get happiness back.” – Jim Butcher
Monday Quotes for Instagram
1. “I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday.” — Unknown
2. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
3. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
4. “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Denise Brennan-Nelson
5. “May your coffee be strong and your Mondays be short.” — Unknown
6. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
7. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. “I don’t hate Mondays, I just hate waking up early on Monday.”
9. “I swear it was just Friday like 5 minutes ago.”
10. “What do you call someone who is happy on Monday? Retired.”
11. “No one hates Mondays. I’m no one.”
12. “Mindful Monday Humans, May your coffee kick in before reality does.” -Napz Cherub Pellazo
13. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”– Arthur Ashe
14. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
15. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
16. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. — Ralph Marston
17. “Forever is composed of nows.” ― Emily Dickinson
18. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
19. “Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb
20. “If Monday had a face, I would punch it.”
21. “Positive vibes, good coffee, happy Monday!”
22. “Hi Monday. Can you please skip to Friday? Thanks, your biggest fan.”
Funny Monday Quotes
1. “Mondays are like a poorly-written comedy script, except you’re the punchline.”
2. “If you know anything about me, you know that my life’s taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!” — Naomi Judd
3. “Hello, Monday. May I ask you a question? Why are you always back so quickly? Don’t you have a hobby?”
4. “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”– Steve Jobs
5. “The worst part of my Mondays is hearing you complain about Mondays.”
6. “I heard about history repeating itself but this Monday thing has got to stop.”
7. “Monday is like the person who showed up to a party uninvited. Like you’ll allow it… but how rude!”
8. “Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.” – Tom Wilson
9. “This is the Mondayest Monday that ever Mondayed.”
10. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis
11. “If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.” – Anita Roddick
12. “Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I’m a man of simple pleasures, really.” – Arthur Darvill
13. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
Short Monday Quotes
1. “You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” — Andrea L’Artiste
2. “Monday is a fresh start. It’s like a new year, but every week!”
3. “Tuesday is just a sign that I survived Monday.”
4. “Mondays are difficult because you have to get up early and face the world.”
5. “The best weeks start on Monday.” -Nice Peter
6. “Monday got me like CTRL + ALT + DELETE, end task.” – Unknown
7. “Monday morning will come whether you set the alarm or not.” -Ursula K. LeGuin
8. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” — Robert H. Schuller
9. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” — Farrah Gray
10. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
11. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!” — Dolly Parton
12. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
13. “Mondays take a little more coffee and a lot more mascara.” – Unknown
14. “Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?” – Unknown
15. “It’s Monday again? I wasn’t even finished with my Saturday yet.”
16. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
17. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “On Monday morning, I look forward fearlessly to Friday’s eve.” – Ellen Wittlinger
19. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” — Dr. Henry Link
20. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ― Michael Altshuler
21. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
22. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
23. “It’s Monday! Grab some coffee and be awesome.” – Unknown
24. “The beginning is always today.” — Mary Shelley
25. “The key to productivity is to focus on one task at a time.” – Gary Keller
26. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
27. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
Monday Quotes for Work
1. “Mondays are the start of the work week, which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” — David Dwek
2. “There are many opportunities in every single day, and Monday is the perfect day to seize them all.” – Isabella Koldras
3. “So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” – Julio Alexi Genao
4. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
5. “Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?” – Kanika Saxena
6. “You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” – Zig Ziglar
7. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde
8. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
9. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
10. “Don’t be busy; be productive. Don’t just get through the day; get something from the day.” – Tony Robbins
11. “Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm.” – Byron Pulsifer
Monday Quotes for Business
1. “Productivity is not about working more hours, it’s about working smarter.” – Elon Musk
2. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso
3. “If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.” – Ben Silbermann
4. “Done is better than perfect.” ― Sheryl Sandberg
5. “I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
6. “Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do.” – Reid Hoffman
7. “Don’t be afraid to delegate.” – Richard Branson
8. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Sheryl Sandberg
9. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett
10. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert
11. “It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
12. “If you can help your people have clarity of what their role is, they can achieve amazing things – particularly when the entrepreneur empowers them with responsibility.” – Creel Price
13. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
14. “Don’t expect 100% productivity from an employee when you only give them 1% training.” – Unknown
These funny and inspiring Monday quotes are best read on Monday morning so you get through the day with a bright & positive energy!
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